HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Secure AI Agents
AI security startup HiddenLayer raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Delta-v Capital, money it plans to use to expand a new product that protects AI coding agents.
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Georgia's GITA Launches International AI Camp for 60 Students
Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency has opened an international AI camp in Tbilisi, bringing together 60 students from six countries to study AI, machine learning and cybersecurity.
Read more →SpaceX Completes $60 Billion Acquisition of Cursor
SpaceX has closed its $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor, folding the popular AI coding assistant into the computing empire that already includes xAI's Grok.
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AI Chip Startup Etched Raises $700M at $21B Valuation
Inference-chip startup Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a month after Jane Street tested and bought its hardware.
Read more →AI Video Startup Higgsfield Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation
Higgsfield closed a $400 million Series B led by DST Global, quadrupling its valuation to $5.4 billion in eight months as its AI video tools hit $700 million in annualized revenue.
Read more →Stripe to Buy AI Gateway OpenRouter for Over $7 Billion
Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model-routing platform used by 8 million developers, in a deal worth more than $7 billion that neither company has confirmed.
Read more →xAI Co-Founder's River AI Raises $1.1B for Personal AI
River AI, a startup founded by former xAI leader Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion to let users train and own their own AI models instead of renting access to closed ones.
Read more →Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Video Startup Decart for $6 Billion
Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Decart AI, an Israeli startup behind real-time video and chip-efficiency technology, in what would be its largest deal to date, Bloomberg reports.
Read more →Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Co-Found Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and three other longtime Google AI researchers have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific research with AI.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics Launches Robots Trained by Demonstration
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →Benioff-Backed June AI Raises $20M to Fix Enterprise AI Rollouts
June AI emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to help companies deploy AI agents into legacy systems without hiring costly outside consultants.
Read more →Nvidia Invests $5 Billion in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence
Nvidia is investing in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, giving the secretive AI safety lab early access to its next-generation Vera Rubin chips and a tenfold jump in compute.
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What Is Groq — and How Is It Different From Grok?
Groq builds ultra-fast AI inference chips called LPUs — a hardware company often confused with xAI's chatbot Grok. Here's what actually separates them, and what Nvidia's $20 billion deal changed.
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What Is the AI Bubble — and How Would We Know If It Popped?
The AI boom shares real warning signs with the dot-com bubble — and real differences. Here's the actual debate over valuations, spending, and revenue, in plain terms.
Read more →Georgia Opens Kutaisi Technology Hub With AI Computing Center
Georgia inaugurated a technology hub in Kutaisi's former parliament building on July 24, combining an AI computing center, a technopark and a TUMO school branch for teenagers.
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What Is Poolside? The AI Startup Behind the Laguna Coding Models
Poolside is a startup that builds AI models trained specifically to write and fix code, then gives the weights away for free. Here's who is behind it and how the models work.
Read more →Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B for Physical AI Robots
Travis Kalanick's robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber — the company that ousted him as CEO in 2017 — joining as an investor.
Read more →UK Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152M, Hits $1.35B Valuation
London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as Fortune 500 clients scale up deployments.
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What Is Georgia's AI Startup Scene — and Who's Building It?
Georgia's AI startup scene is small, but a growing mix of state grants, new tech parks, and one high-profile acquisition is building real momentum behind it.
Read more →Spectro Cloud Raises $100M Series D, Hits $260M Total Funding
AI infrastructure startup Spectro Cloud raised a $100 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, pushing its total funding to $260 million.
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What Is a Pre-IPO Round — and Why Do AI Startups Raise Them?
A pre-IPO round is the last private financing a company raises before listing publicly. Here's how it works, who invests, and why AI and robotics startups are racing to raise them.
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